A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go to the UK to present a workshop on Social Media with David Wilcox at the UK Circuit Riders Conference. I also had a chance to meet Nick Booth from Podnosh, High Fibre Podcasting. Nick is a journalist with a background in documentary making. I asked him for some video shooting techniques for interviews and he kindly gave me and David some excellent coaching and shooting pointers.
My video blogging has mostly been about "moment capture" from professional conferences. I am mostly live blogging with text and photos and then I capture a video clip or soundbyte from someone who was in the session, a speaker or participant. As a beginner, I've only been able to think in sound bytes from a single shoot because I wanted to have the editing process be easy and efficient. Nick gave me some tips on how to integrate interviewing techniques with camera angles that makes your editing work easy and could result in a better a good final product.
There is nothing like getting some one-on-one or small group coaching from a pro. This is why I'm organizing a video geekout session at NTC -- we'll have some of the rock stars of the video blogging community with us - Jay Dedman, Ryan Hodson, Jonny Goldstein, Andy Carvin, and Robyn Tippins.
Always great to be included w/these esteemed names. Looking forward to April!
Posted by: Robyn Tippins | January 29, 2007 at 08:59 PM
I just went to Sundance and found that my first hour of shooting video (basically ever) was in the Entertainment Weekly suite with Kevin Bacon on his views about film and philanthropy. SURE could have used tips like this. And I really like the question and summary formula you use. Thanks, Beth.
Posted by: Philanthromedia | January 31, 2007 at 03:48 AM